Should public education cost more per student than the average tax bill?

From the March 29, 2012 news release, Ontario Increases Funding Per Student:

“The 2012-13 Grants for Student Needs (GSN) will rise this coming year to $11,189 per student. That is an increase of about $4,000 per student since 2003.“

According to StatsCan, the median Canadian family income in 2013 was $76,000.

From the Ernst & Young 2013 Tax Calculator, the tax bill for an Ontario median family income household was $16,967, where less than 35% of that would be provincial tax.

That is, the provincial tax bill would not exceed $6000.

Does it make any sense that the per-student funding is higher than the median family household income?

When it is said that private education isn’t affordable for most with the same approach as public education, that is true, and that’s precisely because the public education system isn’t financially sustainable.

In a free market of allowing for an opt-out of public education, education wouldn’t be this expensive, just as food and basic shelter isn’t expensive enough for the vast majority of people in the Western world.

The claim is made that education is a public benefit and therefore the public should pay for public education, regardless of how many children one has who attend public school. Indeed education is a public benefit, but how are families incapable of providing that benefit to their own children, through private means?

Public education is a scam, just like government itself. Because government itself is a scam, it needs the scam of public education in order to brainwash future citizens into accepting the idea of governments as being necessary to make society “work” .

If “we” have governments in the first place, then “we” must have government funded, fake “education” with which to brainwash the masses regarding the necessity of governments, and their wars on the individual and on other states.